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short journeys is almost as quick! as almost is journeys short
world. Listen to the clang of machinery and imagine what what imagine and machinery of clang the to Listen world.
for and cash more even you saves cycling, of
the last operating steam driven textile weaving mill in the the in mill weaving textile driven steam operating last the
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Gawthorpe Hall is a National Trust property. Dating from from Dating property. Trust National a is Hall Gawthorpe No problem! Most of our greenways greenways our of Most problem! No
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and there are traffic free cycle paths in the park. (The Hall is is Hall (The park. the in paths cycle free traffic are there and
Burnley. If you can’t ride a bike, or have a disability there’s there’s disability a have or bike, a ride can’t you If Burnley.
explore gallery. Route 68 the Pennine Cycleway runs past the Hall Hall the past runs Cycleway Pennine the 68 Route gallery.
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to spend the day. the spend to
advance onto the train for it to travel with you. you. with travel to it for train the onto advance www.lancashire.gov.uk/cycling www.lancashire.gov.uk/cycling Visit
world. A cycle ride to one of Burnley’s heritage attractions is a great way way great a is attractions heritage Burnley’s of one to ride cycle A world.
securely at the station or book your bike in in bike your book or station the at securely
In the nineteenth century Burnley was the cotton weaving capital of the the of capital weaving cotton the was Burnley century nineteenth the In
With 4 stations in the borough, leave your bike bike your leave borough, the in stations 4 With www.visitburnley.com www.visitburnley.com Visit
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to teach them to cycle and take a ride. There are child seats, tagalongs tagalongs seats, child are There ride. a take and cycle to them teach to
in the production of cotton cloth. Stop at the Visitor Centre by the the by Centre Visitor the at Stop cloth. cotton of production the in
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keep fit and have fun. have and fit keep
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save travelling by bike or foot. foot. or bike by travelling save Leeds & Liverpool canal improvements improvements canal Liverpool & Leeds •
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and it’s a way to obtain the 30 minutes a day exercise recommended by doctors. by recommended exercise day a minutes 30 the obtain to way a it’s and
cycle paths to avoid the worst of the traffic. the of worst the avoid to paths cycle
in shape and saving you money. Go by bike or foot to the shops, school and work work and school shops, the to foot or bike by Go money. you saving and shape in
areas in the north to cycle. cycle. to north the in areas
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